Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

A life of conflict and greediness causes a person to suffer from the rheumatism of sadness.

Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

But you see now baby, whether you have a ph.d., d.d. or no d, we're in this bag together. And whether you are from Morehouse or Nohouse, we,re still in this bag together.

I believe that art has incredible power.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

Great shooters are one dribble guys.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth